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Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle
July 1, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

Visit the Crossword Express website - RF CafeTake a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

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Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle for July 1, 2012 - RF Cafe 


ACROSS DOWN
1. Mate to a plug
5. A 3rd-order polynomial
8. Image file format name extension (pl.)
12. Study for a test just before taking it
14. Chemical symbol for lutetium
15. Chemical symbol for cadmium
17. Cause the temperature to drop
19. Turn on the computer
20. Radio location system
21. Bore a hole
22. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
24. Network department (abbr.)
25. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
26. Digital transmission figure of merit (abbr.)
27. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.)
28. Opposite of O.D.
29. Chemical symbol for aluminum
31. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.)
32. Local Oscillator (abbr.)
33. Chemical symbol for lithium
35. PC follower
36. Unit of length (abbr.)
38. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
39. Science of assuring operation amid dense EM background noise (abbr.)
40. FCC Part 15 rules apply in this band (abbr.)
41. Go beyond published limits
44. Portion of a cone which remains when its upper part has been cut off by a plane parallel to its base
46. Slang for Ursa Major
49. A keyboard key
51. Chemical symbol for gold
52. A common battery cell size
53. Resistive component of a capacitor's lumped element model (abbr.)
54. Online service
56. Voltage-current phase mnemonic
58. The most common conductor metal
59. Pliers-like surgical tool used in the electronics lab (pl.)
60. Negatively charged ions
61. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)
64. Unit of current
66. Abbreviation for acknowledge (also a common word used by Bill the Cat)
68. 1.602E-19 Joules
70. Chemical symbol for lawrencium
71. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)
75. Its chemical symbol is I
77. interprets encoded data
78. Power * Time
80. Display type
82. Curly-Q type light bulb (abbr.)
84. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.)
85. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
86. Stock symbol for Boeing
87. Morse Code for "from"
89. PC follower
90. Intel x86 command for " jump if above"
91. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
93. Chemical symbol for gadolinium
94. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.)
96. Common gateway interface (abbr.)
98. Chemical symbol for lithium
100. Chemical symbol for cobalt
101. Stock symbol for Conexant
102. 1/1000000 prefix
104. Crystal face
105. Co-channel rejection ratio (abbr.)
106. Antenna radiated power measurement (abbr.)
108. Type of current
109. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
110. Stock symbol for Dell Computer
112. Computer monitor (abbr., pl.)
113. Small representative graphics
114. Swap ____, a Ham's flea market
2. Add catalyst
3. Chemical symbol for chromium
4. ___ Friedrich Gauss, after whom the unit of magnetic field strength is named
5. Chemically react to harden
6. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide
7. Imaging device (abbr., pl.)
8. A common IC bondwire metal
9. Galilean moon
10. Logic device for counting (hyph.)
11. Line of Sight (abbr.)
13. _/_-___, maker of RF semiconductors and connectors
14. Software object reference name
16. Change from the initial value due to instability
17. Does it with a mouse
18. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)
19. Spurious signals produced in a receiver
23. The "E" in TEM
30. The common connection for all parts of a circuit that connect to the negative side of the power supply (2 wds.)
32. Semiconductor lamps
34. International Amateur Radio Union (abbr.)
35. Prefix meaning "water"
37. Multichannel multipoint distribution service
42. Divided into chunks
43. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
44. Like a crystal
45. Network controllers
47. Infrared (abbr.)
48. Famous 200 inch telescope
50. Chemical symbol for copper
53. 1/6 inch printer's measure
54. "You've got mail" ISP
55. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)
56. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)
57. Indium phosphide
62. Chemical symbol for berkelium
63. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
65. Energy possessed by a body in motion
66. Army-Navy specification prefix
67. Wireless phone region
69. Russian space probes which visited Halley's comet
70. Have a positive phase wrt a reference
72. Transition from solid to liquid phase
73. Army-Navy specification prefix
74. Opamp circuit for converting an inductance into a capacitance, and vice versa
76. Logic gate to flip logic level
79. Small circle whose center moves round the circumference of a larger one
81. Ceramic Dual Inline Package
83. Did not pass electrical test
86. Part of PCB
88. World's 1st fully electronic digital computer
92. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
93. General Mobile Radio Service (abbr.)
95. An ellipse has two of them
97. Ground fault interrupter (abbr., pl.)
99. Thing in a bill of material
100. Error checking scheme (abbr.)
103. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)
107. Network department (abbr.)
111. Front edge of a wing (abbr.) 



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